[keithpeter]

Installed on an old Thinkpad X61s from the xfce4 live .iso (< 600Mb) dd'ed to a usb stick. Boots into an xfce live graphical session with network-manager recognising the Atheros wifi card. Minimal install - xfce 4.12 plus Web browser and image viewer (1.5Gb on hard drive).

Ran the installer script from a terminal in the live session - result is an ncurses dialogue that walks you through the steps. Disk already partitioned and skipped the network set-up stage and selected install from local. Rebooted into (graphical, xfce4) installed system in a few minutes. Network manager up and running, needed to log-in to local wifi again.

Probably because I skipped the network stage in the installer, I needed to set a repository for updates.

     echo 'repository=http://repo.voidlinux.eu/current/' \ >  
     /etc/xbps.d/00-repository-main.conf

(somewhat reminiscent of OpenBSD's 6.2 new installurl)

Now installing some applications. LibreOffice is version 6 'fresh'. A bit like OpenBSD, installing Libreoffice brings a metric tonne of dependencies.

Edit: you need to install alsa to get sound

     xbps-install alsa-utils

gets you basic sound functionality. The 'stem matches package name' logic is very reminiscent of OpenBSD pkg_add (I've never used NetBSD).

[nicklaf]

It looks like you've already figured out some things like sound, wifi, and xbps, but: I found the following guide helpful in complementing the man pages:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/void/voidtips.htm

More articles on Void from the same author, including an install guide:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/void/index.htm

[keithpeter]

Thanks.

I worked out that root defaults to /bin/sh before reading the voidtips page above. Also worth mentioning here that Firefox-esr (52) is installed by default from the xfce4 live iso. Firefox release (59) is also available as is Chromium (65). Some font-puggling is needed (fontconfig stuff) to get sub-pixel rendering.

In all, quite nice. I'll see how long it takes me to break this.